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Separation and reunion in modern China / Charles Stafford.

Author/creator Stafford, Charles
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoCambridge ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press,
Descriptionviii, 202 p. ; 24 cm.
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Subject(s)
Contents Acknowledgements -- Introduction: an anthropology of separation -- 1. Two festival of reunion -- 2. The etiquette of parting and return -- 3. Greeting and sending-off the dead -- 4. The ambivalent threshold -- 5. Commensality as reunion -- 6. Women and the obligation to return -- 7. Developing a sense of history -- 8. Classical narratives of separation and reunion -- 9. The politics of separation and reunion in China and Taiwan -- Conclusion: the separation constraint -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (179-199) and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2001269806
ISBN0521780179
ISBN0521784344 (PBK.)

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